Day 18 - 365 Challenge

I actually started soemthing! I've had this book for some time now but never had the chance to sit down and really look at it. I thought the sketches inside were larger but i discovered that they are of a size that can be worked on a table. I am so excited! I am working on "Doorway".

Day 17 - 365 Challenge

I did manage to make something today but it seems to be a storm cloud floating over my head! Something has to change. I am determined to keep pushing at it until....

Day 16 - 365 Challenge

Can you guess?

Maybe my "art" is reading. I do like to type too!

Day 15 - 365 Challenge

"What can you do with just a dollar?" Instantly i thought of the little origami shirt that guy form Avalon gave me years ago. And the little triangles we use to make in high school! But as for me? I did manage to actually write in the journal!

Day 14 - 365 Challenge

"Make something microscopic..." I was remembering Marty. When i first met him (went in to see if he would work with me) he showed me some watercolors he had done. A dot of paint here, a line there, a wash. a squiggle... and the next thing you know there was this tiny landscape!
BUT...I have done nothing more than work it all out in my head and never put my hand to anything. I am really starting to feel ashamed of myself. Ugh.

Day 13 - 365 Challenge

The 365 diary suggests "Use tea leaves or tea bags (used or unused) or even just liquid tea (in a cup or not) to create something today" so...I set up a still life and then took all kinds of pictures using different settings etc. I did get out a sketch pad but...
I really don't know what is wrong with me. I WILL break this drawing phobia i seem to have developed.

There are 11 shots all together but these are my choices to work from. I like each one for different reasons; the lighting, the perspective, the shimmer of the tea bag!

I have realised there is a flaw in my thinking with this art challenge. Since when does "art" mean a drawing or painting? Haven't i had enough art clases to know better than this?

I have also discovered my preferred "media" is PHOTOGRAHY!

 

Day 12 - 365 Challenge

I got up to the studio today and cleaned up some. Mostly looked thru books for inspiration. I can not find my reference photo for the big cat i am working on so... haven't braved wingin' it on the whiskers. I din't stay long. One of the neighbor guys showed up to the laundry room next door. I think he was drunk but either way he wouldn't stop bothering me. Chattin mostly but i couldn't concentrate on anything and his conversation was so scrambled i couldn't follow it so... took off.
I miss painting. I have to figure out some safe way to have my "chemicals" here. I can't even have a paint rag around!

Day 11 - 365 Challenge

I finally got thru the last of the magazines. (I'd missed a box). Going to start a list now of the pieces i would like to have hang ready. I would like to have approx. 10 on hand ready to go. Also want to check around of calls for scrapbook or card pieces. It has been so long since i have done anything like tht i will have to get on some mailing lists and update my profile info here and there.

Day 10 - 365 Challenge

From the book the suggestion is to use water as my inspiration. Well... of course that means... it rained! C'ville got hail! we got a drizzle. Honestly, i got nothing done.

Day 9 - 365 Challenge

I spent another day looking thru magazines and cutting out inspirational items to put in my sketch book. Also watched this movie on paper folding. WOW! I wonder if that would help me with my math too. Anyway, i don't know if i will get anything done tomorrow. Going in for an MRI on my right hip, knee and ankle. My friend Ivan showed up to go with me tomorrow and after the test we're going to go shopping! Hobby Lobby and Joann's look out!

Day 8 - 365 Challenge

Spent the day walking the halls at the POB (across from Union) and the Bone & Joint Center admiring their art work and all the glorious daylight from their sun roofs. I didnt get much done art related but now in hind sight i think i should contemplate something dark when i am in "that place" again. Maybe there is some way to express all this pain without it seeming so.... hehehehe "dark".

I did give some serious consideration to adapting some art works to the Kindle. I think it would be a rather interesting challenge converting some great works into a rich grey scale suitable for the ebook device.

Day 7 - 365 Challenge

I spent the day looking thru old magazines for pics or fonts to use or just use as inspiration. The added benefit, of course, is the culling of so much and thus clean out the stuff in storage.

Day 6 - 365 Challenge

I didn't accomplish much in the way of producing art today but... I figured out how to use the scanner in conjunction with my Blogger acct.
Also...Kris and Ivan went through storage again and broght me another van load of goodies. HA! and i thought i had tons of stuff here before! I've collected enough stuff that I should be offering classes. So...tomorrow... look out! I start papercrafting; scrapbooking, cards and collage elements.

Day 5 - 365 Challenge

I collect Panda bears but today i'd say i collect art books. (If i only can get them all read!)

Doodling is so time consumming and there is so very little to show for it afterwards. I understand now why i have done so little of it. When I draw I want to "accomplish" something. doodling is just...freeing! It requires little to no thought. As lazy as i am I have to ask.... why have i never done this before? Control? I have serious issues!

I am about ready to start sharing. (shaking in my shoes).

Day 4 - 365 Challenge

I worked on 5-6 pgs in Wreck This Journal. I am starting to have fun. Things aren't so intimadating now. I have to remind myself that the suggestions offered ea day are just that - suggestions. I want to start scanning some of the pgs in to show progress but... items aren't always acceptable for a public forum.

I hope to do a few more pgs tomorrow (later today). I have some ideas growing for some of the pgs in the Wreck. It's just a matter of finding the right tools!

Need to figure out how to get my blogger posts to share on fb.

If anyone understands the scanning part of this PLEASE write cause....

The work on these wasn't so time consumming as the thought that went into them... coming up with words.

Day 3 - 365 Challenge

Well, i didn't do anything exactly artistic today. But... i did accomplish something spectacular! I opened a checking acct.! So... i once again have a local checking acct. Such a world has opened up!

Dot bought me a bookmarker and a coffee as a Bday present. We were going to go out for lunch but when the check cashing turned into opening an acct.... our time just rushed away!

All in all it was a good day. I got all dressed up and wore one of the new pullover sweater blouses i bought Monday at the new GoodWill Opening. It was so nice to be in "real" clothes and not jeans! I think i need to keep that up. It does something to my mood being dressed nice.

Day 2 - 365 Challenge

I had recently moved my studio over here to the apartment so i have been organizing it all. I have found a few things missing (some from the studio that never made it here and other items that are probably still in storage - Kris is helping me with that one!) but for the most part it is ready for action!

I have gone in and cleaned up all my blogs and hopefully now am ready to log all my progress and processes. Oh! i have to go check out my old Flickr account. Also i need to find someone who would vbe willing to come and take some pictures of me to post online. My profile pic is from 2004. Enough already! hehehehe I think i have changed a bit!

Day 1 - 365 Challenge

     I'm not even going to try and catch up with what i have been doing with my art but... i have given myself a challenge.

     I bought myself a book for my birthday. "A Daily Creativity Journal - 365; Make Something Every Day And Change Your Life!" Well, my life and my art both are in serious need of a change (overhaul) so here goes!
     My Day 1 was actually yesterday - 14 March 2011 I worked fron another book "Wreck This Journal". OMG! Everybody should get a copy!! I really like altered art and in class we have had to work with books that we were suppose to tear up or paint in etc. The 1st challenge in "Wreck" was to break the spine of the book! Aaaggghhhhhh! It was easier for me to tear out a page!
    When in my life did books become scared? I think always. My sister never tore up a book as a small child. She was taught that they were VERY special and therefore could only be handled once she understood their vaule. Consequencly, she could read by the time she was four. My grandchildren, ugh.... the things they do to books! Makes my skin crawl but....
     The idea of destroying a book ON PURPOSE in the name of art... to thus make the book art... what a concept! I'm all in!